Another dream: the world is being taken over, in the style of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by beings who possess the bodies of ordinary people. By cutting the spinal cord at the base of the back with a chisel, the possessed can be brought back — although they’re, naturally, paralysed from the waist down.

Somewhere in me, there’s a shockingly poor science fiction writer being mercifully withheld from the rest of the world.